Oyo APC leaders petition Buhari, NWC over congress, say crisis may affect party in 2019

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- Some APC leaders in Oyo state have petitioned President Buhari over congress

- They said that failure to address issues relating to congresses in the state could jeopardize its chances during 2019 general elections

- It was alleged that Governor Abiola Ajimobi's loyalists did not pay for nomination forms but were allowed to vie for positions

Some leaders of the APC in Oyo state have sent a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari and the national headquarters of the party.

Daily Trust reports that the leaders maintained that the failure to address issues relating to congresses in the state could jeopardize its chances during 2019 general elections.

NAIJ.com gathered that the party in the state has remained divided, with allegations that some people supported by Governor Abiola Ajimobi did not pay for nomination forms but were allowed to vie for positions and thereafter emerged as winners at the detriment of committed members.

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had previously reported that a faction of the Oyo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), known as the Unity Forum called on President Muhammadu Buhari in a letter written to the president, alleging threat to the lives of its members.

The letter, titled, 'Notification of threat to our lives, public peace and request for intervention' was signed by Wasiu Olatunbosun, the secretary of the forum.

It was gathered that they asked the president to use his good offices to save their lives from the hands of people they claimed were working for the state governor, Abiola Ajimobi.

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The letter had read: “We are constrained to direct this letter to Your Excellency because of the urgent need for you to use your good offices as the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces to intervene in the unrelenting threat to the lives of our members and the threat to public peace by individuals and groups who surreptitiously identify themselves as working for Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the governor of Oyo state.

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